A very tiny spider pranced around atop my head.
It shimmied down my earlobe, and then dangled from a thread.
It scurried down my shoulder, and then scuttled down my arm,
While I watched with much amusement, since it clearly meant no harm.
Oh, where do spiders wander when they walk across the floor?
Do they have a spider family waiting just outside the door?
I hope its web is warm and soft when the day comes to an end.
The cows all fly on aeroplanes
Beneath the bright blue sky
Up there amongst the wind and clouds
Up there, up oh-so high
The snowman is a friend of mine
He came to town today
He hitched a ride with Santa Claus
And rode in on his sleigh
The candy canes all love to dance
Beneath the Christmas tree
With snowmen, elves, and reindeer, too
They sing a song for me
And as for you, they’ll sing one, too
You only have to say,
“Oh, candy canes, please sing a song
For me this Christmas day.”
The mushroom people are always dreary.
They never smile and they’re never cheery.
They build their houses under rotting logs
And spend every day in the stinking bogs.
I think you’d be likely to wear a frown
If you had to live in the mushroom town.
The cats and dogs of Shangri-la
Parade around the town,
With drums and flutes and tubas, too,
From morning ‘till sundown.
When, late at night, they snuggle tight
And settle down to sleep,
There in their dreams they learn the tunes
And rhythms they must keep.
Then, when they wake, they gather up
The instruments they play,
And, one by one, they fall in line
To march another day.
Not all spiders are hairy and scary,
Some of them are really quite nice.
They spend their day chasing bad bugs away,
So before you squish one, think twice!
Atop the blade of grass he stood –
The mighty little ant that could.
“Why climb,” the other ants had asked?
“Because it’s there,” he’d said at last.
A very tiny kangaroo
About three inches high
Hopped up to me one afternoon
And looked me in the eye
“Why hello Roo, how do you do?”
I asked the little guy
(He had no pouch
Which is how, you see
That I knew that the roo
Was a he and not she)
The roo and me, we drank some tea
As the afternoon rolled by
We lay in the grass and watched the clouds
If I had a dog named Goliath
There’s nothing that we wouldn’t do
We’d spend every day together and play
Together forever, we two
We’d climb to the top of a mountain
And swim to the floor of the sea
We’d sail away for a year and a day
Together, Goliath and me
If I had a dog named Goliath
There’s nowhere that we wouldn’t go
We’d fly to the moon in a big red balloon
